Richard Burton | Svend Gade | Johnston Forbes-Robertson

BURTON HAMLET

(1.5.28 - 54)
"List, list, O, list. . . . O Hamlet what a falling off was there."

(1.5.95 - 118)
"Fare thee well at once. . . . Now to my word: 'It is Adieu, adieu! Remember me."

SVEND GADE HAMLET  (back to top)

In Svend Gade's film version, we are never shown a scene on the castle ramparts. Instead, much of the information that Shakespeare gives us in 1.4 and 1.5 appears in the film in altered form and in other contexts. Actions merely described in the text are sometimes enacted in the film; and sometimes specific moments in the play inspire entirely new scenes and sequences.

(1.5.49 - 64)
While Hamlet speaks with her father, Claudius enters and kisses Gertrude's hand.
"Ay that incestuous, that adulterate beast."

(1.5.48 - 64)
Hamlet observes her mother and Claudius together and begins to distrust her uncle.
"O my prophetic soul! My uncle?"

(1.5.49 - 64)
In this version, Claudius and Gertrude begin their liason before Old Hamlet’s death.
"Ay that incestuous, that adulterate beast."

(1.5.52; 1.5.42 - 64)
Claudius enlists Gertrude's help in his plot to murder Old Hamlet.
"Won to this shameful lust/ The will of my most seeming virtuous queen."

(1.5.46; 1.5.43 - 64)
While Gertrude stands guard, Claudius gets an actual serpent from the Pit of Poison Adders.
"The serpent that did sting thy fathers life,/ Now wears his crown."

(1.5.28; 1.5.s.d. - 98)
 While Hamlet mourns her father, a voice from the tomb calls for revenge.
"If thou didst euer thy dear father love. . . . Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder."

(1.5.43 - 64)
The castle gardener tells Hamlet he found an adder next to the body.
"'Tis given out, that sleeping in my orchard,/ A serpent stung me."

(1.5.48; 1.5.43 - 119)
Hamlet finds her uncle's dagger at the Pit of Poison Adders.
"O my prophetic soul! My uncle?"